I'm a writer and researcher. I recently co-authored the best-selling book "Flip the Script", with Oren Klaff for Penguin Random House (I'm credited on the title page!). Also, I've published over a dozen peer-reviewed scientific journal articles on persuasion, social influence, adolescence, and parent-teen communication. When I'm not writing on other people's projects, I'm working on my own blog and the podcast I host for parents of teenagers, called Talking to Teens. That's where I share tips for discussing tough issues with teenagers and I interview parenting authors from all over the world. I love helping people put their stories and ideas into writing in a way that gets attention and causes readers to take action or rethink something they used to take for granted. With degrees in psychology and screenwriting, I excel at using well-structured stories to demonstrate complex ideas in a simple, emotional, engaging, and scientifically-accurate way.